Zhong Xiang and the Mystery of Yang Yao Uprising

Ode to Dongting Lake

Zhongxiang Yang Mao Uprising was a peasant uprising in Dongting Lake area in the early Southern Song Dynasty.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhongxiang, a Wu Lingren in Dingzhou, used religious activities to organize people from his hometown to join him.

-Farmers organized by villages and towns should give a little money and food and help each other in the community, so that they can thrive and live a healthy life in the silkworm farm.

Rich. He declared that it was not a good law to divide the rich and the poor. I do my job, regardless of wealth. This represents

Compared with Wang Xiaobo in the early Northern Song Dynasty, the political proposition of equality between farmers' wealth and social status is wealth equality.

This idea has taken another step forward. Therefore, Zhong Xiang is deeply supported by the masses and is called a master or a saint. Poverty around

Countless farmers have joined the rural communities. For more than 20 years, its influence has spread to the counties around Dongting Lake.

At the beginning of the second year of Jing Dynasty, when the Jin people invaded, Zhong Xiang organized 300 militiamen and ordered his eldest son Zhong Ziang to lead the troops north.

King Qin. This team had no contact with the nomads from China, but was ordered to be repatriated by Song Gaozong Zhao Gou who had just acceded to the throne. Synchronize with this clock

Based on the team, plan the uprising. Jinbing crossed the river and was broken. Officers and soldiers and defeated soldiers burned and looted everywhere, and the Southern Song Dynasty was unified.

Southerners are in dire straits, in Jiangxi, Fujian and Jinghu.

Peasant uprisings broke out one after another. In a word, in February of four years, Zhong Xiang was in Jin Rentu Tan.

Kongyanzhou bandit troops invaded Lizhou and Dingzhou and fell into crisis. They led the uprising to defend their hometown. No, Zhu Jianguo,

The title of the year is Zai _, Zhong is commensurate with the King of Chu, and Zhong Ziang, the eldest son, is a prince, with a butler. Rebellious combustion

The right of government agencies, cities, temples, temples and homes to kill officials, Confucian scholars, monks and nuns, witch doctors, fortune tellers and those who have feuds.

People, as well as occupying landlords, are your own land.

They call it killing officials or something. Doing things is called sharing the property of these people, and it also denounces the law of the Song Dynasty as

Evil laws protect Ray's husband and fisherman. Anyone who joins the rebels

Tax-free, not subject to litigation laws and regulations. These ideas and actions are warmly supported by the people and are considered to be

God takes this for granted. The insurgents captured Ding, Li, Jingnan, Tan and Xia.

Near), Yue, Chen and other counties 19.

The revolutionary action and great momentum of the peasant uprising army frightened the landlords and gentry, and they marched together with Kong Yanzhou's bandit troops.

In Dingzhou, the peasant uprising was suppressed. After repeated failures, Kong Yanzhou sent spies into the rebel army and stole it at the end of March.

Xiang who attacked Zhong and his son Zhong Ziang were captured and killed.

Zhong Xiang died, and under the leadership of Yang Yao and others, the headquarters continued to struggle. Yao is the youngest leader.

He was called Yao Lang or Yang Yao, and gradually became the leader supported by the rebels.

Yao built water villages and warships around Dongting Lake and implemented the strategic policy of "nourishing the lake with water". Plow the fields and draw water, like this

The rebels are developing rapidly. Usually engage in production, go aboard to fight in wartime. Longyang Wuling to Yuanjiang County

There are twenty or thirty water towns in the west of Shui Yuan, especially Xiacheng and Liuhenger of Shangzhi River.

This village is the most dangerous. They made full use of the criss-crossing topography of rivers and ports and their professional knowledge of navigation, and adopted amphibious operations.

Action and loyalty. In the first year of Shaoxing, after capturing the official cars and craftsmen of the Southern Song Dynasty, they built cars and built ships.

Ambush a large number of water troops downstream in an attempt to wipe out the rebels in one fell swoop. Yang has mobilized the main force and family members in the upper reaches to let the enemy attack.

Empty. Yao sent many vehicles and boats to finish it and cross the river. Cui Zeng and Wu Quanshui, who were lying in ambush downstream, thought

It was an empty ship defeated by the rebels, and the whole team rushed into the lake. Hundreds of ships, large and small, were only sunk by the rebels. Cui and Wu

Two people also died at the bottom of the lake. In one day, the rebels wiped out tens of thousands of water troops in the Southern Song Dynasty. The rebels also defeated the Southern Song Dynasty imperial court many times.

Plot to win over.

In the spring of Shao Wunian, Yue Fei was transferred to suppress the rebels and Zhang Jun, the prime minister, was sent to bid. They are in the lake district.

The main roads were heavily guarded, the encirclement was narrowed, the economic blockade was strengthened, troops were sent in summer, and crops were destroyed, which triggered an uprising.

Serious economic difficulties in the region; At the same time, vigorously carry out political induced surrender activities. Huang Zuo and Yang Qin defected to the enemy first, and mixed into the rebel army.

Teacher collapse, Yang Yao unyielding, captured and sacrificed.

After Yang's death, Huang Cheng and Zhou Lun surrendered, Xia Cheng continued to resist, and the village was also breached. Lizhou Rebel Army

Then, under the leadership of brothers Jin Hong and Hong Tong, they persisted in Xiaozhai for more than a year and finally failed. Before the uprising

A * * * after six and a half years. Based on Dongting Lake area, we persisted in the struggle to prepare for the later peasant uprising.

Rich experience.